Every Door vs Ascend Maps
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Every Door
Easily update local map data by adding or verifying businesses, benches, and street lamps. This app simplifies the process of keeping your town's map information current and accurate.
- Add and verify shops in malls
- Update map data for your town
- Micromapping for benches and street lamps
- Add building attributes and entrances
- Automatic merging into building contours
- Uses iD editor presets and data
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This editor does not make you think. Just go to a mall, and start Every Door. You'll see mapped shops around you: tap on the checkmark for any that are still there, and add shops that are not on the map. That's the entire process: you can keep your entire town up-to-date thanks to this simple editor. There is also a micromapping mode for verifying and adding benches and street lamps. And an entrance mode for adding building attributes and entrances — which are merged automatically into building contours. Every Door uses presets and other data from iD editor.
Ascend Maps
This app provides customizable outdoor maps with offline capabilities. It features 3D terrain, track recording, saved places management, and the ability to save map tiles for offline use. Explore the outdoors with detailed, personalized navigation tools.
- Offline search
- 3D terrain
- Track recording and editing
- Saved places management
- Customizable map styles
- Offline map tile saving
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Ascend is an open source app for vector and raster maps. Features include 3D terrain, offline search, track recording and editing, managing saved places, saving map tiles for offline use, and more. CUSTOMIZABLE * Includes a simple, customizable style for OpenStreetMap vector tiles with modes for hiking, biking, and transit. * Overlay customizable hillshading, shaded relief, contour lines, and slope angle shading calculated in real-time over any base map. * Supports plugins for search, routing, map sources and more. * Add new online map sources and combine layers to create new maps. * Generate and import your own vector tiles. COMPREHENSIVE * Offline search * Wikipedia search * Manage saved places * Show geotagged photos from your Photo Library. * Create and edit routes * Record and edit tracks for hiking, fitness, and more * Save map tiles for offline use Learn more at https://github.com/styluslabs/maps
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: Every Door at 8 against Ascend Maps's 1. On price, rating, update cadence and ads there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Every Door against 5.0 for Ascend Maps. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Every Door has 8 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Every Door ships an update every 3 months, Ascend Maps every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on October 2, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Every Door | Ascend Maps |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (8 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 8 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months — better | Every 6 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 105 MB | 11 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | AvatudKaart OU | Matthew White |
Customer experience
Every Door
Ascend Maps
In-app purchases
Every Door
No in-app purchases
Ascend Maps
No in-app purchases
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